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United States, and like any colony of settlers in a new 

 country, began to fell the timber to build themselves 

 houses, to erect a sawmill, and to cultivate the ground. 





TOWN HALL AND CHURCH, NEW METLAKAHTLA. 



Only a few years had passed when the property of the 

 colony was as great as it had ever been, and since that 

 time it has gone on prospering. The town is laid out 

 with straight, broad streets, and wide board sidewalks. 

 Each house and its garden is surrounded by a fence ; the 

 people wear civilized clothing, work at the fishing, in the 

 sawmill, or in the cannery for six days in the week, and 

 rest on the seventh, attending church service in the edifice 

 which they erected with their own hands, and which is a 

 piece of architecture which would be called beautiful in 

 any land. Except for their color, and for the peculiar 

 gait, which seems to be common to all these fishing In- 

 dians, these people and their wives and children could 

 hardly be told from any civilized community of a thousand 

 souls anywhere in the country. 



It took many years for Mr. Duncan to change these In- 

 dians from the wild men that they were when he first met 



